Research Statistician (iREACH Health)

Queen's University Belfast; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Job summary

Queen's University Belfast seeks a highly qualified statistician to provide specialist statistical expertise and leadership to design, conduct, analyze, and report clinical research studies within iREACH Health.

The role supports complex trials and data-enabled research across academic and industry partnerships, with autonomy in a multidisciplinary environment and opportunities to contribute to research development and funding.

Qualifications

• PhD in biostatistics or a related discipline.
• Substantial experience in statistical analysis of health or clinical data.
• Experience applying statistical methods to complex research problems.
• Proficiency in statistical software such as R, Stata, SAS or SPSS.
• Experience in data management, cleaning and validation.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist statistical expertise to design, conduct, analyze and report clinical research studies.
• Lead statistical aspects of trials and data-enabled research within iREACH Health.
• Contribute to research development, funding applications and academic outputs.

Skills

Biostatistics

Statistical analysis

R

SAS

Stata

SPSS

Data cleaning

Data validation

Education

PhD in biostatistics

Tools

R

Stata

SAS

SPSS

Job description

The post-holder will provide specialist statistical expertise and leadership to support the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of clinical research studies within iREACH Health. The role will support a portfolio of complex clinical trials and data-enabled research activities across academic and industry partnerships.

The post-holder will operate with a high degree of autonomy, working within a multidisciplinary environment to deliver high-quality, efficient, and innovative clinical research, including digitally enabled trials and real-world data studies. The role will also contribute to research development, funding applications, and academic outputs.

About the Person :

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Have obtained or about to obtain a PhD in a subject related to biostatistics or in a discipline in a related area of professional practice.
• Substantial relevant experience in statistical analysis of health or clinical data
• Demonstrable experience of applying statistical methods to complex research problems
• Proficiency in a range of statistical software (e.g. R, Stata, SAS, SPSS or equivalent)
• Experience in data management, cleaning, and validation.

Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pensionschemesand development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balanceinitiativesand support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and haveestablishedstaff networks such asiRise(Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality,Diversityand Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.